The fifth Trustee of the House sends an invitation for Arthur, along with the other potential heirs, to take her place as leader of the Middle House. Meanwhile Lady Friday is on Earth in the hospital where Leaf and the rest of Arthur's friends and family are recovering from the toxic mind-control mold which takes over their town.
Lady Friday, as a denizen of the house, cannot feel emotions. Instead Friday kidnapped at least a thousand humans and transported them to another world where she drained their emotions, Lady Friday drinks the emotions as a way to feel some of the human's feelings.
Friday arranges a challenge which allows Arthur, the Piper, and Superior Saturday to battle for stewardship. Whoever reaches the fifth key first wins. Suzy Turquoise Blue and Fred Gold Numbers have been kidnapped by the Piper, when Friday sends the invitation they hijack its transport and meet Arthur at the bottom of Friday's terraced mountain .
At the top of the mountain in Friday's Scriptorium lies a trap for the heir, the Piper is first and his minion is swallowed in the trap of Nothing. Arthur finds the Will and it exerts restraint on the rest and counters Lady Friday's rampant lust for emotion. Arthur uses the Keys to repair the hole of Nothing in the House, though it brings him closer to becoming a Denizen of the House. In discovering the trap Arthur manages to save his friend Leaf, but his mother is not among the people who return. When Suzy Turquoise Blue shows Arthur a letter from the Upper House it confirms his task is not complete.
Arthur still doesn't want to inherit the House, but with his mother missing, the Keys give him the power to fight back. Readers of all ages can enjoy the fantasy of the House and Nix's action-adventure, the story is aimed at Middle School readers.
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